07 February 2013

CDW to offer enterprise Chromebook support

CDW to offer enterprise Chromebook supportZDNetSummary: Say hello to Chromebook in the corporate office as multi-billion dollar technology services company CDW offers Chromebooks and Chromebook support and management to its corporate customers. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. By Steven J.ZDNet

Mary Leakey's 100th BirthdayNational GeographicLeakey and her crew sift through an old river bed in Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika, looking for bits of skull. Photo credit NGS. When Mary Douglas Nicol was born 100 years ago today, the idea of human physical evolution was only a few decades old, and very ...

Fox NewsNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has pounded into a Red Planet rock with its drill for the first time, bringing the 1-ton robot a big step closer to initiating its first full-bore drilling operations. The Curiosity rover hammered the rock using the arm-mounted drill's ...

Get a year of Bitcasa unlimited cloud storage for $69CNETDon't need unlimited space? How about 10GB for free? Either way, this cloud service tackles Dropbox with an interesting twist. Rick Broida. by Rick Broida. February 6, 2013 6:14 AM PST Follow @cheapskateblog. (Credit: Bitcasa). Running out of space on ...

Instagram's New Web Feed Will Poison Mobile IntimacyMashableInstagram.com transformed monumentally on Tuesday. The company introduced its first web feed, meaning users can now scroll through filtered photographs to their hearts' content — all from their PCs. Such frictionless browsing was previously only available ...

NASA deep space probe sends back video of 'Comet of the Century'RegisterNASA's Deep Impact probe has sent back images of comet Ison as it heads inexorably towards a close fly-past of the Sun later this year. The spacecraft snapped the comet from a whopping 793 million kilometres with its Medium-Resolution Imager over a ...

Astronomers unravel solar system's strange energy 'ribbon'RegisterAstroboffins reckon they may have solved the mystery of the vast ribbon at the edge of our Solar System after three years of puzzling over it. Retention region shown around our heliosphere. The mysterious band of energy and particles, first discovered by ...

Disney and Google Build an Amazing Interactive Circus to Hype OzWiredGoogle and Disney have teamed to build an interactive circus to promote the upcoming film Oz the Great and Powerful. And yes, a tornado is involved. Image: Google. Disney and Google have built something that's beautiful and fun and points the way toward ...Wired

The largest prime number yet discovered – all 17 million digits of itThe GuardianThe number 257,885,161 – 1 has picked up the baton as the largest known prime number, a result that is tremendously exciting for mathematicians, if rather irrelevant to the rest of mathematics. Primes are numbers that can only be divided by themselves and ...The Guardian

Working less could help solve climate crisisTG DailyWant to help save the planet? Turn that PC off, sit back and put your feet up, says Washington thinktank the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). Cutting back on work hours and playing more instead could help slow global warming significantly.TG Daily

About.me is leaving AOL and getting back to its startup rootsDigital TrendsAbout.me announced that it was leaving AOL with the support of investors and the management team in a buyback that would take the personal identity platform private and back to its startup roots. About.me was a quick buy for AOL, which purchased ...Digital Trends

Xbox 360 Gets Exclusive Console Access to Redbox InstantWiredRedbox Instant by Verizon will launch the beta of its streaming service on the Xbox 360, as the company that put tall red kiosks of DVDs in your neighborhood supermarket joins the streaming-video battle currently being waged by Amazon and Netflix. Redbox ...

Vine implements 17+ age rating and reporting systemSlashGearWhen Twitter released its Vine app a couple of weeks ago, needless to say we were intrigued by the concept. However, the app quickly became plagued with a porn problem that got a majority of people all up in a tizz. However, Twitter has released an update ...SlashGear

Apple about to lose iPhone trademark in Brazil, reports claimDigital Trendsigb electronica iphone Apple could be about to lose any rights to use the iPhone trademark in Brazil, a country with huge market potential for the Cupertino company. A Reuters source says that next week the Brazilian Institute of Intellectual Property will grant ...

Mophie's Helium case doubles the battery capacity of the iPhone 5Digital TrendsAnnounced on the official Mophie site earlier today, the mobile accessories company has developed a new case for the iPhone 5 that significantly increases battery life while still sporting a thin form factor. Adding an additional 1500 mAh battery capacity to the...Digital Trends

BlackBerry Q10 phone may not reach US until May or JuneCNETThe company's second BlackBerry 10 smartphone should hit some markets in April but U.S. consumers won't be able to get one that soon. Lance Whitney. by Lance Whitney. February 6, 2013 5:31 AM PST Follow @lancewhit. BlackBerry&#39;s Q10 ...

What could Microsoft gain from its $2 billion investment in Dell?The Seattle TimesWhen Dell announced Tuesday that it's going private with a $24.4 billion buyout deal, one of the highest-profile names confirmed to be taking part in it was Microsoft, which is lending $2 billion to the buyers. What's in it for Microsoft? The company isn't saying ...

Only 10 percent of devices will use 4G by 2017InquirerNETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE VENDOR Cisco has said that only 10 percent of wireless connections will be 4G in 2017 but they will account for 45 percent of traffic volume. Cisco's latest Visual Networking Index claims that mobile internet use will balloon by ...Inquirer

New Screens And A Trailer Accompany 'TERA' As It Goes Free-To-PlayMTV.com (blog)The artist formerly known as “TERA” has been re-branded and re-launched: the action-oriented MMORPG is now “TERA: Rising,” and it's free-to-play. “TERA” first made waves because of its real-time combat, which is more similar to a console-style action...MTV.com (blog)

Asteroid Makes Close Call: 2012 DA14 to Pass Earth Feb. 15ABC NewsIt begins to get on your nerves. Every now and then -- a few times a year, depending on what you count -- an asteroid goes whizzing past Earth at fairly close range, reminding us that sometimes outer space isn't quite as, well, spacious as we may like to think.ABC News

VIDEO: Humpback whale surprises paddlers in waters off MauiHawaii News NowAn Arizona couple's canoe ride in waters off of Maui quickly turned into a trip they would never forget late last week, when a humpback whale came out of nowhere and bumped into their canoe. The visitors were paddling a few hundred yards from shore when ...

Evidence moles can smell in stereoVanderbilt University NewsMost mammals, including humans, see in stereo and hear in stereo. But whether they can also smell in stereo is the subject of a long-standing scientific controversy. Now, a new study shows definitively that the common mole (Scalopus aquaticus) – the same...Vanderbilt University News

InfopacketsThe United States Department of Energy has been attacked by hackers. The unknown assailants reportedly gained access to employee personal information. News agency Reuters recently acquired a letter between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and ...

Apple Inc. (AAPL) Can't Ignore This Trend ForeverInsider Monkey (blog)The growing phablet trend in certain parts of the world shows no signs of abating any time soon, and that's something that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) can't ignore forever. On the domestic front, the iPhone maker has just recently become the No.Insider Monkey (blog)

Girl Launches Hello Kitty Doll Into SpaceABC News (blog)That's what a seventh grade student from California had in mind when she came up with her dream science project: sending a Hello Kitty doll her dad brought back from a business trip in Japan into space. Lauren Rojas, a 12-year-old from Antioch, Calif., got...ABC News (blog)

Path/FTC settlement - much more than a slap on the wristLexology (registration)On February 1, 2012, “smart journal” application provider, Path, Inc. (“Path”) agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) charges that it deceived consumers and improperly collected personal information in violation of the FTC Act and the Children's ...

Facebook mobile app 'to track user even when phone not being used'Telegraph.co.ukThe location app is designed to allow Facebook users to find friends in the area and will run even if the program isn't open on a user's handset. Facebook already has a mobile “Find Friends” app, which allows users to let others know where they are by ...Telegraph.co.uk

Baumgartner's Supersonic Freefall Grabs EyeballsTopNews Arab EmiratesFelix-Baumgartner A recent news piece talked about how Felix Baumgartner's jump from the edge of the space. It was done at a top speed of 843.6 mph, which was some 10mph more than what was presumed. After the Austrian's jump was examined, the ...TopNews Arab Emirates